Dart
by Alice Oswald
Read by Tom Goodman-Hill
Dart is a poem that charts the river Dart from source to estuary to form a songline of river in verse. Moving between the everyday and the mythical, between exquisite natural beauty and the realities of water filtration at a sewage works, Dart offers a portrait of a place, a time and a river with extraordinary insight and beauty.
Performed by Tom Goodman-Hill, Gareth Thomas, and Joanna Tope, this production was produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. It originally aired on February 25, 2003, at 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM and won the 2002 TS Eliot Prize.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.